eBay: Rare £2 coin selling for £2,500 – do YOU have one of these coins in your pocket?

eBay: Rare £2 coin selling for £2,500 – do YOU have one of these coins in your pocket?

EBAY: A rare £2 coin with a Charles Dickens design is listed for a huge £2,500 on the auction website. Rare coins can sell for thousands of pounds on the platform – particularly if they have certain errors that make them more valuable to collectors. Do you have this coin?

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The coin was created by the Royal Mint in 2012 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.

It features the edge inscription “something will turn up”, which is a line from Dickens’ 1850 novel, David Copperfield.

The Royal Mint website provides additional information to explain why the coin, designed by Matthew Dent, is so special.

The description reads: “n 2012 we marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of Britain’s finest writers, with a unique £2 coin that incorporates the titles of Dickens’ famous works on its highly inventive reverse.”